Making absolutely no sense in the kind of way that makes absolutely perfect sense is one of Nile’s particular skills. I didn’t know it at the time (because, as always, I was desperately trying to keep to deadline and making the whole thing up as I went along) but the grabbing of the date caption turned out to be a little Chekhov’s Gun moment for something that happens in the big finale. Stay tuned and all will (eventually) be revealed.
40. Sunday Ad Infinitum ~ 2
Transcript
Week 39: Sunday - Hold on. It’s still Sunday? That’s-
Nile: -not right.
Spooky: What are you looking at?
Nile: Time.
Spooky: Time?
Nile: Can’t you feel it? Time is moving… differently.
Spooky: It is?
Spooky: It doesn’t really feel any different.
Nile: You’re using the wrong set of senses.
Week 39: Sunday
Spooky: What do you-
Nile: Sssh.
Nile: There. See? It still says Sunday.
Spooky: I don’t… what is this thing?
Nile: It’s a date caption.
Week 39: Sunday
Spooky: Where did it come from?
Nile: From outside the panel border.
Spooky: The what?
Spooky: That’s… kind of difficult to explain, actually. But what matters, is that the caption should have changed by now.
Spooky: Wait. You’re saying… you’re saying it should be tomorrow already?
Nile: Sometime next week, actually.
Spooky: Uh-huh. You do realise that makes absolutely no sense at all, right?
I love the Nile Journals! So delightfully meta. Looking forward to the rest of the story!
[...] I now realise I’ve already teased this episode twice before in the commentary. This is where the bit with the date caption pays off and this is where Nile makes his feelings known about too much exposition. If only [...]